storage on the go/digital viewers
Posted 10/09/2008 - 12:19
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You've got a lot of options - all with ups & downs
1) Laptop. Most flexible option. Laptops are not that expensive these days and you can do full editing on them. Some can be pretty bulky though. However, you could also plump for one of the mini laptops (like the new Dell Inspiron Mini, or the Asus EEE PC) - they don't have "normal" hard drives, but you can easily connect a 2.5" external HDD.
2) Portable storage device. These are nice devices... until they go wrong! Mine blew up the day before my holiday last year, so I ended up taking the laptop. They are often pretty slow at copying cards over. And the downside is you have all your eggs in one basket!
3) More SD cards. At the current price of £14.99 for a 4GB SD-HC Extreme III card from SanDisk (www.picstop.co.uk) these are probably the best value for traveling. They're small and light, and if one gets lost, crushed, or broken - then you've not lost all your images!
For quick showing off my shots, I process my RAW files and produce 640x480 (or 320x240) JPG images that I show on my Dell Pocket PC. That way I can have thousands of images on a cheap 1Gb SD card
Hopefully that'll give you some ideas...
Matt
1) Laptop. Most flexible option. Laptops are not that expensive these days and you can do full editing on them. Some can be pretty bulky though. However, you could also plump for one of the mini laptops (like the new Dell Inspiron Mini, or the Asus EEE PC) - they don't have "normal" hard drives, but you can easily connect a 2.5" external HDD.
2) Portable storage device. These are nice devices... until they go wrong! Mine blew up the day before my holiday last year, so I ended up taking the laptop. They are often pretty slow at copying cards over. And the downside is you have all your eggs in one basket!
3) More SD cards. At the current price of £14.99 for a 4GB SD-HC Extreme III card from SanDisk (www.picstop.co.uk) these are probably the best value for traveling. They're small and light, and if one gets lost, crushed, or broken - then you've not lost all your images!
For quick showing off my shots, I process my RAW files and produce 640x480 (or 320x240) JPG images that I show on my Dell Pocket PC. That way I can have thousands of images on a cheap 1Gb SD card
Hopefully that'll give you some ideas...
Matt
http://www.mattmatic.co.uk
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Posted 10/09/2008 - 14:49
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The safest thing is more SD cards. In the unlikely event that one becomes corrupted then the others will still be safe.
All electronic devices can fail and I would hate to have all my images on a laptop or anything else for it to blow up, or even get stolen.
All electronic devices can fail and I would hate to have all my images on a laptop or anything else for it to blow up, or even get stolen.
Best regards, John
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